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Thursday, May 01, 2014

May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

The May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents
readings by fiction writer Anna
McCarthy, and poets Cormac Culkeen,
Billy Ramsell & Maeve O’Sullivan. The evening will also see a reading,
by members of his family, from Tom Duddy’s
posthumously published second poetry collection: The Years (HappenStance Press, 2014). The event will take place at Charlie
Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway on Saturday, May 17th,
6pm. All are welcome. There is no cover charge.

Tom Duddy was born in
1950 in Ramolin, near the small town of Shrule, Co. Mayo. He came to live in
Galway in 1969, and later taught Philosophy in the School of Humanities at NUI
Galway. His academic publications include A History of Irish Thought
and Dictionary of Irish Philosophers. A chapbook of his poems, The
Small Hours, was published in 2006, and his first full collection, The
Hiding Place, in 2011. Sadly, in 2012, Tom became ill and died, aged 62. A
posthumous collection, The Years, was published earlier this year by
HappenStance Press.

Anna McCarthy was born in
London and lives in New York with her husband and young daughter. Her work has
appeared in Otoliths and was featured
in the 2012 Du Maurier Festival. She was an Iowa Review Short Story Awards
finalist in 2013 and the winner of the hotly contested fiction category in the
2013 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition. She teaches at New York
University.

Billy Ramsell was
born in Cork in 1977 and was educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first
collection, was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. He holds the Chair of
Ireland Bursary for 2013 and has been shortlisted for several other prizes. He
edits the Irish section of the Poetry International website and co-runs an
educational publishing company. His most recent collection: The Architect’s Dream of Winter was
published in 2013.

Cormac Culkeen is a
writer of poetry, fiction and short stories from Dunmore, Co. Galway. Some
years ago his work was published in The Burning Bush literary
magazine, and more recently, his work has been published in Skylight47. He has been a featured
reader at the Over the Edge open reading in October 2012. He lives and works in
Galway and has been attending creative writing classes at Galway Technical
Institute with Susan Millar Dumars.

Maeve O’Sullivan’s poems have been widely published and
anthologised since the mid-1990s.
Initial Response, her debut collection of haiku poetry was
published by Alba Publishing in 2011, and was well-received by critics. She
also performs at festivals and literary events with the spoken word group The Poetry Divas. Her poem ‘Leaving Vigo’ was recently nominated for
a Forward Prize for a Single Poem by Revival
magazine. Her poetry collection Vocal Chords was published earlier this year by Alba Publishing.

For further
information contact 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing financial support of the
Arts Council and Galway City Council.